New openings, weekend picks, and honest local guides. Fresh takes on what's worth your time around town.
Our evergreen local picks, the spots we send friends to. Kept up to date, never expiring.
Sunday is the last day at Aldo's Pizza after 68 years. Plus a free Neave Trio concert at the Main Library, a cocktail class at Fogbird, '90s rock at McGovern's, and a pottery and audiobook night at Color Me Mine.
Update, November 2: the developer has withdrawn its request for a streamlined review. The city says it will keep working with them on the environmental review path.
For more than 13 years, Brett Burdette has taught guitar and ukulele to Peninsula kids and families. At his new San Mateo studio, he is building something bigger than a weekly lesson.
Trick-or-treating downtown and on 25th Avenue, a library party with a magic show, Halloween dance nights, and a teen pumpkin carving. Everything happening October 24 to 31.
Rise Woodfire has spent nearly six years serving wood-fired pizza inside the downtown train station. Now it is finally doing the thing it always planned: weekend brunch.
A Pilates studio, a downtown butcher shop, a new dance studio, and a private event space. What has opened around town since our summer guide.
Classic cars took over two miles of El Camino Real on Saturday night. We were out there from golden hour to closing time. Here is what it looked like.
Some of the best, cheapest food in San Mateo is tucked inside grocery stores: a taqueria behind the meat counter, a taco truck in the parking lot, Turkish borek and Guatemalan plates by the register. Nine markets where the food counter is the real reason to go.
A local couple's blueprint for a great Saturday in town, from the morning market to a park picnic to dinner downtown. Steal it, or make it your own.
For one weekend, the whole city turns into a treasure hunt. Here's how to sell your own stuff, or go find someone else's.
The story of a family market that opened in 1906, came home after internment, and became the Peninsula's go-to for poke, Spam musubi, and a taste of the islands.
A downtown brunch boom, a matcha bar, Korean BBQ, and more. The freshest spots to open around town.
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